European & Russian Studies Colloquium | Collectivization Generation

The European & Russian Studies MA Program presents a colloquium by Marianne Kamp, Associate Professor in the Central Eurasian Studies Department, Indiana University, on "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan"

Marianne Kamp reads from and discusses her new book, Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan (Cornell 2024). Born between the early 1900s and the early 1920s, the collectivization generation were rural youth who participated in the transformation of Uzbekistan’s agricultural life in the 1930s as children or young adults. A top-down restructuring ruptured their predictable life trajectories and created new categories for understanding self and society. We meet Uzbeks whose fathers disappeared into the Stalinist gulag, who suffered from starvation and orphanhood, and we meet Uzbeks who told of embracing the collectivization project and of feeling rewarded with pay and recognition.

Lunch at 12:30 pm and Workshop at 1:00 pm
Location: HQ Rm 276, second floor, 320 York St.
Part of the European & Russian Studies Colloquium lunch series, sponsored by the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center

Bio: Marianne Kamp earned her PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She has done research in Uzbekistan for more than 30 years. She teaches Central Asian studies at Indiana University.